Game apparatus.



H. B. H'ILL.

GAME APPARATUS APPLICATION mu) JAN-2|, 1915.

Famed Oct. 5, 1915.

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HARRISON B. I-IIIiL, OF EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,

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Specification of Letters Patent Patented 0015.5, 1915.

Application filed January 21 1915. Serial No.*3,656.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Hannrson B. HILL, acitizen of the United States, residing at East Providence, in the countyof Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulGame Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a novel and inexpensive gameapparatus by means of which one or more persons may agreeably entertainthemselves.

To this end my invention consists in the new, novel and usefulconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter describedand shown in the accompanying drawings, in which, 7

Figure l is a plan View of my game apparatus. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of same, with the object-balls and hazard l numerals omitted.

Similar reference letters refer to similar parts throughout thedrawings.

A represents a board, preferably rectangular, provided with a boundaryor retaining wall A entirely encompassing it. In two diagonally oppositecorners formed by said retaining wall A I form pocket-like chambers A Aeach having an opening toward the center of the board A. Upon thesurface of the board A, within the inclosure formed by the wall A andspaced a distance therefrom on all sides I secure a perpendicularannular Wall B provided with an opening 6 opposite one of the unoccupiedcorners formed by the wall A. Within the annular wall B I form aplurality of chambers or pockets opening toward the center of the boardA, and inclosed on the remaining .sides by the wall B and partitions Bextending radially inward therefrom. Within the inclosure formed by saidannular wall B and disposed concentrically therewith I secure a secondsimilar perpendicular annular wall C spaced a distance from the inneredges of the radial partitions B to thereby form an unobstructed annularpassage-way between it and said partitions. Said wall C is provided withinwardly extending radial partitions C and also with an exit opening 0positioned, preferably diametrically, opposite the opening I) of thewall B, and opening in a direction opposite to the latter. Thepartitions'C together with the wall 0 form pocket-like chambers openinginward toward'the center of the board A.

In conjunction with the parts shown and 7 described I use two sphericalbodies, P' P Fig. 1) preferably marbles, of suitable diameter to allowthem to move freely in and out of the chambers B C as well as throughthe exits b and c' and in and out of the corner pockets A A Twodiametrically opposite'chambers C in the innermost'inclosure are markedzero (0) and the remaining chambers are each marked with numerals torepresent hazards. The Zero chambers are the starting points. The twochambers B located directly opposite the exit 0 are also marked zero (0)and do not count in the game. The remaining chambers B are respectivelymarked with Any numerals and represent hazards. numerals may beemployed.

In the practic'al operation of my invention the player uses two marblesor balls, P, P placing one in each of the chambers C marked with thezero mark. Then by tilting the board A he is to cause the two marbles toroll out through the exit 0, into the pass-way and out through the exitI) and finally into and rest in the chambers or pockets A ,-one ball ormarble in each pocket. In Fig. 1 the balls P, P are shown, in dottedoutline, as approaching the corner pocketsA A In case either ball rollsinto either chamber marked with a numeral the player is penalized theamount of such number-by adding it to his score, the game being to Irollthe two balls from the two startingpoints into the corner pockets AWithout-allowing either of them to roll into the hazard chambers. Theplayer accomplishing this vwith the smallest numerical.

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the base, an annular perpendicular wall secured upon said baseequidistantfrom said encompassing wall, and provided with an exitopening toward the center of said base, andalso with a plurality ofradially extending chambers extending inward from the,

interior of said wall and open on their inward side, a second similarannular wall secured upon said base and, disposed with in said firstannular wall concentrically .one in each of a predetermined two of said10 therewith, equidistant from the inner sides last mentioned radialchambers and reliable,

of said chambers secured to said first annuupon said base, from saidchambers one into lar wall, similarly provided with radial 7 each ofsaid pockets.

inwardly extending chambers open on their HARRISON B HILL inward side,and also with an exit opening in the contrary direction to the exit insaid i/Vitnesses:

first mentioned annular Wall, and two HENRY lJARsH, J12,

spherical bodies or balls initially disposed GEORGE E. THURBER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

Corrections inLetters Patent No.1 ,1 56,006.

Patent No. 1,156,006, granted October 5,

It is hereby certified that in Letters Hill, of East Providence, RhodeIsland,

1915, upon the application of Harrison B.

for an improvement in Game Apparatus, errors appear in Figure 1 of thedrawings and in the printed specification requiring correction asfollows: In Figure 1 of the drawings, the lower ball within the smallercircle should be indicated P, and

the upper ball within the circle should be indicated 1?. In the samefigure, the ball P should be shown in dotted lines adjacent the lowerleft hand pocket A and the ball P in dotted lines adjacent the upperright hand pocketA On line 58 of page 1 of the specification, theexponent used in connection with the first reference letter P should beomitted; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with thesecorrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 23rd day of November, A. D. 1915.

a J. 'r. NEWTON,

[SEAL] Acting Commissioner of Patents.

